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Silenus

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Re: On Laziness
« on: September 09, 2020, 10:06:55 am »
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The Brahmins however had to find it [the truth about the worthlessnes of life], because they were completely free from the struggle for survival, because they could lead a pure, placid life and spend all the power of their mind to solve the riddle of the world. Furthermore, they occupied the first position in the state: There could be nobody happier […] than them and therefore, the shadow, that clouds the judgement of the inferiors, namely the thought, that happiness gilds the peaks and cannot reach the valleys, that it really exists in the world, just not everywhere, never threw itself between them [the Brahmins] and the truth."
- Philipp Mainlander

An ascetic life + the vow to work as little as possible = "free time," the Machine's worst enemy.

Who or what is a bigger threat to a culture-civilization than the person who works to abolish the clocks that hang on the walls which imprison them?

"And the strict master Death bids them dance."